Eliza Hull Maury Withers Letters
Scope and Contents
Collection contains extracts from personal letters of Mrs. Withers recount the daily events of her life in various mining communities in Colorado.
Dates
- 1878-1881
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Copyright
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from material in the collection should be discussed with the appropriate librarian or archivist. Permission for publication may be given on behalf of the Denver Public Library as the owner of the physical item. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained by the customer. The Library does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or publication rights of the manuscript held by the writer, heirs, donors, or executors. Reproduction restrictions are decided on a case-by-case basis.
Biographical / Historical
Eliza Hull Maury Withers was a pioneer who came to Colorado from Richmond, Va. 1870s. Wife of Thomas Withers, a mining engineer and surveyor; daughter of Matthew Fontaine Maury, "Pathfinder of the Seas."
Extent
1 envelope (41 leaves)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, Katherine W. Toll, 1938.
General
Typed transcript (1938) by Katherine W. Toll. Originals were in possession of Mrs. Littleton Fitzgerald, Richmond, Va.
- Women pioneers -- Colorado -- Correspondence. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Description rules
- Anglo American Cataloguing Rules
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Denver Public Library, Western History and Genealogy Repository
